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Wait, that's just one scientist out of three that died of toxicity data. Doesn't that mean, that they've only determined LD<sub>33</sub>? Is there any way to estimate LD<sub>50</sub> from LD<sub>33</sub>? Imho the exact distribution of death rate / dose would have to be known up to one free parameter for such an estimate... -- [[User:Xorg|Xorg]] ([[User talk:Xorg|talk]]) 10:56, 4 September 2013 (UTC) | Wait, that's just one scientist out of three that died of toxicity data. Doesn't that mean, that they've only determined LD<sub>33</sub>? Is there any way to estimate LD<sub>50</sub> from LD<sub>33</sub>? Imho the exact distribution of death rate / dose would have to be known up to one free parameter for such an estimate... -- [[User:Xorg|Xorg]] ([[User talk:Xorg|talk]]) 10:56, 4 September 2013 (UTC) | ||
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| + | :I tried to address this with an edit. Betwixt the ultimate and penultimate ("...he/she weighs.") sentences I started to add: | ||
| + | ::Presumably, for every recorded death a statistically matched second person survived the same load. In this case ''perhaps'' this is the Cueball scientist behind the Megan scientist, although he is now obviously unencumbered. | ||
| + | :...although it started to run away with me. Was also going to say something about saving paper by re-using the 'test dose', or something, but it's already getting too long. But someone might be able to edit it (and even re-arrange it) better than I. [[Special:Contributions/178.106.190.241|178.106.190.241]] 11:42, 4 September 2013 (UTC) | ||
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There's one toxicology paper that's facing us instead of laying flat. Is it just me, or is there a funny "concerned" face on it? --Druid816 (talk) 05:58, 4 September 2013 (UTC)
Oh my, when I checked the comic this morning I didn't even see Cueball lying underneath the stack of toxicology papers... --Buggz (talk) 06:17, 4 September 2013 (UTC)
Is there any way to move this page from LD50 to LD50? 208.120.153.144 06:31, 4 September 2013 (UTC)
- We try to stay as faithful to the main xkcd comics as possible when referencing xkcd materials. If the comic title on xkcd.com is LD50, it's LD50 here too. Davidy²²[talk] 06:51, 4 September 2013 (UTC)
Wait, that's just one scientist out of three that died of toxicity data. Doesn't that mean, that they've only determined LD33? Is there any way to estimate LD50 from LD33? Imho the exact distribution of death rate / dose would have to be known up to one free parameter for such an estimate... -- Xorg (talk) 10:56, 4 September 2013 (UTC)
- I tried to address this with an edit. Betwixt the ultimate and penultimate ("...he/she weighs.") sentences I started to add:
- Presumably, for every recorded death a statistically matched second person survived the same load. In this case perhaps this is the Cueball scientist behind the Megan scientist, although he is now obviously unencumbered.
- ...although it started to run away with me. Was also going to say something about saving paper by re-using the 'test dose', or something, but it's already getting too long. But someone might be able to edit it (and even re-arrange it) better than I. 178.106.190.241 11:42, 4 September 2013 (UTC)
